Michigan signs questionable recruit

Tony Ding/Associated PressMichigan coach Rich Rodriguez. Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez is so desperate these days that not even a confession by one of his recruits about two home burglaries could change Rodriguez's mind.

A record of 8-16 at Michigan can make coaches do some strange things.

Star recruit Demar Dorsey confessed to burglarizing two homes in one day in South Florida in 2007, according to police reports and interviews, but Rodriguez suggested it was just a matter of Dorsey being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The records obtained today by the Free Press portray Dorsey as an active participant in the November 2007 burglaries, down to the football gloves he wore to prevent his fingerprints from being left at the scene. In one, the homeowner later identified Dorsey as one of the people who broke into his home.

Dorsey, who was 16 at the time, was charged but not convicted. Instead, he was put through a diversion program for juvenile offenders at the behest of the Broward County State Attorney’s Office.

The Free Press also learned today that Dorsey was arrested in another burglary, this one in June 2007. He got a break then, too, with prosecutors sending him to the diversion program.

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